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Clouds Data Access and Tools
NASA’s clouds data span from atmosphere cloud and surface geophysical state measurements to hurricane tracking. Our datasets and tools help users find and integrate the data they need to discover how clouds form, flourish, and influence Earth’s weather and climate.
Clouds Datasets
| Dataset Sort descending | Version | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Spatial Extent | Spatial Resolution | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere Radar and Satellite (Remote Sensing) Data Products | 1 | GOES-17, GOES-16, GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS | ABI, GridRad | 2021-07-05 to 2022-07-14 | NetCDF-4 | ||
| Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere Reports | 1 | NASA ER-2 | Computer | 2021-07-16 to 2022-07-13 | |||
| ECOSTRESS Cloud Mask Daily L2 Global 70m V001 | 001 | ISS | ECOSTRESS | 2018-07-09 to 2025-01-06 |
N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 |
70 Meters x 70 Meters | HDF5 |
| ECOSTRESS Gridded Cloud Mask Instantaneous L2 Global 70 m V002 | 002 | ISS | ECOSTRESS | 2018-07-09 to Present |
N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 |
70 Meters x 70 Meters | HDF5 |
| ECOSTRESS L3/L4 Ancillary data Quality Assurance (QA) flags L3 Global 70m V001 | 001 | ISS | ECOSTRESS | 2018-07-15 to 2023-02-25 |
N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 |
70 Meters x 70 Meters | HDF5 |
| EMIT L2A Masks 60 m V002 | 002 | ISS | EMIT Imaging Spectrometer | 2022-08-09 to Present |
N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 |
60 Meters x 60 Meters | netCDF-4 |
| EPIC Ocean Surface PAR 1 Product V02 | 02 | DSCOVR | EPIC | 2015-06-13 to Present | HDF5 | ||
| EPIC-view satellite composites for DSCOVR, Version 1 | 01 | Aqua, GOES, METEOSAT, MTSAT, NOAA POES, DSCOVR, Terra | MODIS, GOES N-P Imager, MVIRI, MTSAT 2 Imager, AVHRR, EPIC | 2015-06-12 to 2017-12-31 | NetCDF-4 | ||
| ER-2 X-Band Doppler Radar (EXRAD) ALOFT | 1 | NASA ER-2 | EXRAD | 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-31 |
N: 35.959 S: 10.888 E: -80.404 W: -118.559 |
HDF5 | |
| ER-2 X-Band Doppler Radar (EXRAD) IMPACTS | 1 | NASA ER-2 | EXRAD | 2020-01-25 to 2023-03-02 |
N: 48.658 S: 27.106 E: -67.286 W: -117.635 |
HDF-5 |
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Clouds Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASDC CALIPSO Search and Subset Tool | The CALIPSO Search and Subset web application enables a more sophisticated approach to selecting and ordering CALIPSO lidar data by date, time and geolocation. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Earthdata Search | Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. | Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading | |
| SOOT | NASA's Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) provides users with suborbital field campaign data discovery and download capabilities. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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